Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-04-09
NEBRASKA.
Beatrice has . boon.

~ the Republican.
A full temperance sickst is. aourisbiug in
he field at WyInore.
Ainsworth has q buiisiS ..sa.,.tio, with
capital o $i00,9O0.
iAo prohioitionists Of Nebraska City have
dominated 4 city tie x~x
Three miles Of e. nssa r.,,v.x viii no MA . ,.d
\ Grand Island ehts year.
a nour mil with . capacity Of 100 barrels q
LAY Is 70 De Asilt 81 Wisne-.
fiatt'me Abb viii celebrate the completion
her wa Ger works next week.
ASor OF FTmer Murray, Of Blair, lest q
icy IL. : stalk cutter last week.
TO Plattsmouth water works are oom-
+ Setcd and the event will be celebrated.
Minden voted to issss bonds to aid In the
extension of the Kansas City and Omaha rail-
road.
The halt, the lame and the blind Of Dodge
county, In ~purblind simplicity, are trying the
faith cure.
The Democrat Is willing 10 coscede that
5000 new homes will be erected in Lincoln
this year.
oSid b0HG"ttE LpicHSO, WIN lOIbS
porkers, 10 months old, that weighed $40
pounds each.
Over ll,000 men are now engaged In build
ing the Rock Island extension in Nebraska
aud Kansas.
Water works are a certainty In Falls City
and electric lights are next on the list of i'm
provemcnts.
The farmers Of Webster have organized a
grange. The Germans have over 200 mem
bers In their club.
Beatrice is negotiating with Hon. John
Fitzgerald fer the establishment of 4 packing
house at that point.
The new jail as Tekamah is not fit for the
purpose for which it was constructed. Pris-
oners make easy escapes.
The average daily attendance at the Grand
Island schools last month was SCI, out of a
total enrolment Of I2t3.
Geo. j. Rubleman, q Beatrice druggist, has
failed. His stock was attached by his wife
for s 600 loaned money.
A burglar raided the Edwards residence in
Hastings Thursday night, and cleared a watch
and 800 worth Of silyerware.
The Norfolk Daily Gazette, in its anxiety to
reach All Fools Day, dates its entire Thurs
day morning issue "ApNl l."
On Thursday forty men struck at the Ne
braska City packing house because one of
their number was discharged.
The Nebraska City News Is improving
rapidly In size and quantity Of contents.
Steam power now seethes behind its throne.
A new game, called "twelve.and-s-half,n is
the latest craze In Grand Island. 1t stimu-
lates enterprise at the rate Of tive for q quar-
ter.
The new pestmistress at Everett is reported
as q drawing card and the country offices
about are threatened with suspension from q
loss OF patronage.
The South Omaha stock yards" says the
Schuyler Herald, "are proving a grand thing
for stock raisers Of this state. A majority Of
the stock raised In this state 10 now marketed
there"
Nine and onethird miles of water mains
have been planted in Hastings. The water
works will be ia operation In q ev weeks, and
the town Will then douse Is with a
shower bath.
A diminishing party u the pay Of "A long
handle corporation, the Omaha, Lincoln,
Hartland and FL Paso road are setting stakes
in the neighborhood Of Crete, along the Blue
river and Salt creek.
There are now sixteen cities In this state
that have or are building a system Of water
su~pply-Omahs, ~rincoln, West Point, Grand
Island, Fremont, Columbus, Blair, Albion,
Wisner, Ashland, Beatrice, Hastings, Kear-
ney, Nebraska City, Plattsmouth and Falls
City.
The Nebraska City board Of trade did the
neat thing when 1t presented Mr.. Bey schise
with warranty deeds TO lots on which he will
erect factories for the manufacture Of starch,
oatmeal and hominy. Mr.. Bsyschlag was
agreeably surprised st this substantial cvi.
dence Of local appreciation.
Two boys were drowned IN Big Alksli lake,
about eighteen miles south OF Valentine, on
last Sunday. The boys, Frank Palmer, aged
IS, and Ava Carson, aged 10, were ont hunt
ing and ventured on the lake for q short row.
A terrific wind prevailing at the time drove
them out into the midst OF floating ice. Ttei.
boat became unmanageabls and capsized In
fifteen feet Of water.
A stranger from Blue Springs started a
lively scandal In Ulysses Wednesday night,
During the evening he strolled out with the
wife OF q man named Crockett. Crockett
found 1t out, and walking past the couple,
turned suddenly around, struck the stranger
in the face, knocking him down. The city
marshal then arrested him. The stranger
claims the woman separated him and hts wife.
Crockett had previously applied for a divorce.
The Rock Island railroad extension In this
state, known west Of the Missouri river as
the Chicago, Kansas aud Nebrasks, wls com
pleted to Hebron, Thayer county, last Mon
day. The event was celebrated In q thor
oughiy business style. The cnterprising
people OF Hebron took advantage Of a free
train from the company, loaded 4 it with corn,
bunting and banners and starred for Chicago.
| Every car had two banners On each side. On
the side Of the FIRST car was "Hebron, the
Queen City OF the Little Blue Vally - 80 900
Farmers Wanted in Thaytr county" Each
side OF every car was decorated in q similar
manner, and every banner set forth Ia large
letters and proclaimed 10 the people all aleng
the line the great advantages and wonderful